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I'll just say that the album itself is, as expected, very good. Just about anything by Zevon is. This album reflects his coming demise, so don't expect anything real upbeat. But I knew that going in and like his ballads.
The thing that took away from the overall experience, though, was the "Auto Rip" feature from Amazon. When I bought it, I thought, "Wow! That's great! That will save me from having to rip it myself." Not so much. When I got the notice the tracks were available, it turned out that it was just that - the tracks. And it was made for streaming. I don't stream my music. I rip the CD to my hard drive and back it up to an external hard drive.
Then I copy it to a stick or micro SD for my vehicles or MP3 player. When I went to download the music to my hard drive, I discovered I had to download each track individually and, when I did, it came down only with the track name - no artist, no album title, no genre. So I'll end up ripping the CD, like usual, and let Grace Notes do its thing. All in all, it's no fault of the music or the artist. But it was a benefit posted by Amazon that did not live up to the promise and took away from the overall purchase experience. Amazon could take a lesson from Grace Notes.
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